Fedora 19 USB install

This guidance is provided as an unsupported install of Amahi 7 on Fedora 19 using a USB flash drive. It requires manual configuration to install Amahi 7 and configure Greyhole. The officially supported instructions can be found at here.

PREREQUISITES

• USB Flash Drive (2GB minimum)
• UNetbootin (download here)

Create USB image (Windows)

• Insert USB flash drive into Windows computer.
• Run UNetbootin
• Select Fedora for Distribution
• Choose 19_Live (32-bit) or 19_Live_X64 (64-bit) depending on your system.
• Verify at the bottom
  • Type is USB Drive
  • Drive listed is for your USB flash drive. If not, select the appropriate drive.
• Once you are ready, choose OK. Please be patient as this may take a while since it downloads the files and then extracts them to the USB flash drive.
• When UNetbootin finishes, select Exit and remove the USB flash drive.

Install on Server

• Insert the USB flash drive into your server.
• Now boot your server using the USB flash drive. Some BIOS have function keys that allow you to choose the boot media. Others may require changes to the BIOS.

• Select Start Fedora Live from the menu.
• Once the Fedora has booted, you will have two options:
  • Try Fedora
  • Install to Hard Drive
• Select Install to Hard Drive.
• Configure the options as you desire, i.e. Time Zone, Hard Drive. When finished, select Begin Installation.
• Now you will see the options to set a root password and/or create a user. You MUST do one of the following:
  • Set a root password and create a user.
  • Create a user and make it an administrator.
• Once the install is finished, select Quit.
• Finally we will need to reboot the machine (DO NOT remove the USB flash drive)
  • Choose the Live User at the top right of the screen
  • Select Power Off and then Reboot.
  • Once the login screen appears, you can remove the USB flash drive and log in using the password for the user set during install.

NOTE: Most commands from here on will need to be executed as a privileged user. Depending on how you configured the users at install, you may need to precede them with sudo (made user administrator). Otherwise, you will need to be root user.

Enable SSH (Optional)

We need to enable SSH for remote access. If you don't intend to access your HDA remotely inside or outside your network via SSH, you can skip this step.

• Execute the following as a privileged user (precede commands with sudo if not run as root user):

systemctl start sshd.service
systemctl enable sshd.service

Connectivity

Ensure you can connect to the internet before proceeding to Install Amahi 7 section. On the HDA, open Firefox and try to access a web page.

• If you can’t, edit the following file:

vi /etc/resolv.conf

• Add the following to the end of the file:

nameserver 208.67.222.222
nameserver 208.67.220.220

• Restart the network:

systemctl restart network.service

Now check again and if you can access the internet, proceed to the next section. Otherwise, further troubleshooting will be required.

Install Amahi 7

These steps can be performed via SSH or on the HDA in terminal mode.

• Install required packages:

rpm -Uvh http://f19.amahi.org/noarch/hda-release-6.9.0-1.noarch.rpm
yum -y install mariadb-libs mariadb-server
yum -y install hda-ctl hda-platform

• Next we need to manually execute the installer (substitute your install code):

hda-install YOUR-INSTALL-CODE

• If all goes well, you should be asked to reboot.
• Once the machine is rebooted and you log in, open Firefox and enter http://hda/
• The dashboard should appear shortly.

NOTE: If you need to add additional hard drives, follow the guidance for adding additional drives. This includes procedures for the new 3 & 4 TB drives.

Install Greyhole (Optional)

Follow the guidance Manual Greyhole Setup to configure Greyhole for Amahi 7.

Install Complete

Amahi 7 should be installed and working as designed. Recommend you reboot the HDA next to verify all is working correctly.